Drawing and labeling high-quality metro maps by mixed-integer programming

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 626-641

  Nöllenburg, Martin ^a   Wolff, Alexander ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

graph drawing; graph labeling; metro map; mixed integer programming; Network visualization; octilinear layout

Indexed keywords

GRAPH DRAWING; GRAPH LABELINGS; METRO MAP; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; OCTILINEAR LAYOUT;

COMMUNICATION; DRAWING (GRAPHICS); SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS; VISUALIZATION;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79952897581     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.81     Document Type: Article

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